Happy Tet New Year!

Wishing everyone a year full of heath, happiness, and prosperity! This weekend we celebrated the year of the golden dragon. I love my little China girl and asian boys.

A quick layout based on Got Sketch using Basic Grey Picadilly

I am feeling so lucky lately. I won some goodies from Imaginese not too long ago, a chevron stamp from Kinsey Wilson's blog giveaway, and just today I was notified I won the Stretch your Kit class by Amy Tangerine from Dawn McVey's blog! Sooo many scrappy goodness! :) So it's my turn to give back. Leave a comment for your chance to win some scrappy supplies. I'll draw a name on the last day of the month. Where is your favorite place to shop?

Take Twelve - Jan 12th

Sometimes I sign myself up for too many projects and then never follow through but I like challenges and this is one that should be fun. The Take Twelve photography/scrapbooking challenge is to take 12 photos on the 12th of every month. I actually took more than 12 and had a hard time narrowing it down so this post is going to be a photo overload.

1. My son never takes a bath without bubbles.

2. Husband chillaxin in Kenzie's room after a full day

3. My daughter LOVES to gurgle mouthwash...scope, listerine..she can handle it.  So we got her an iCarly bottle for her stocking, it has an easy squeeze cap so she doesn't have to ask us for help to open it up.

4. Chef daddy making breakfast each morning while mommy gets the kids showered and ready for school.

5. My parents just returned from Vietnam and brought back these rosary bracelets for the kids.  Micah and Kenzie wanted one of each color.  They also got a travel tic tac toe game.

6. Paxton loves to play with his trains ever since his cousin Koen introduced him to them.  He's obsessed with them!

6a.  Toby, Henry, Paxton, Thomas....even mommy knows all 50+ names

 7. Kenzie is reading 2nd grade level books now, this was her AR reading book this week and she loved that the last page had an interactive circle that she can move around to choose the different moods and faces.

 8. I just finished reading the 3 set book of Hungar Games which is a big accomplishment for me because I never have time to read any more but this book is next on my list.  Lam received it as a prize after we ran the Cessna Fly By 5k last October.  And my goal this year is to beat my previous time.

 9. What we're currently wearing

 10. On our fridge is Micah's leader of the day calendar for PK, Kenzie's lunch menu (she used to want to bring her lunch on the days the food wasn't so great but they got a new cafeteria chef and she tells me her lunches were so goood), and the YMCA schedule of group classes for me since we are now members.

 11. Lam's favorite game is jewels. 

 12.  The pantry, after and before picture.  It must have taken me 2 hours to match up all the tupperware I had.  Soooo many boxes without lids and lids without matching boxes.  It feels good to organize it all.

Lots of Chap

It's been a while since I've shared some layouts but i"m back into the swing of it. This month I got a chance to play with 3 Scrappy Boy's January Add-On kit and it is full of the American Crafts Chap line. Perfect for boys but so much color infused, you could adapt it to any occassion.

Right now 3SB is having a huge sale, go stock up while you can. 

This week (in addition to the inventory sale)

only all Smash products and paints and mists

are 50% off!

It's the dreaded inventory time! To make my life

easier, we're having a sale-anywhere from

10-70% off, most items are over 35% off!

***I just updated the store with new last

chance clearance, clearance, and past kit

clearance items. Plus they are now an extra

10% off.***

Co-worker Gifts

A Merry Christmas to everyone! Hope you are gathering with loved ones today and celebrating a wonderful season. I"ve been very blessed this year, our family is in good health, our kids are excelling in school, we've got stable jobs, it's a lot to be thankful for. I posted about these two pages over at 3 Scrappy Boys. The pictures are a co-worker's daughter, layouts I gifted to her. :)

I received this amazing prize package from the wonderful people at Imaginisce for one of their blog giveaways. I tell you what, all this bling is so pretty, makes me want to put it on all my pages now! The bling lipstick packaging is too cute. The i-rock tool is so easy to use, you just plug it in and the heat transfer will just melt the hot rock accents right onto your page where you have it positioned....it's very cool!

I love all things pink and sparkly...I made a set of 15 monogram ornaments for the co-workers. The idea was from my lss, using glue dots dipped in glitter, very easy and cute.
I"m on a week of vacation so hopefully I'll have more pages to share after such a busy month.

Post Retreat

Just getting a chance to finally upload a few layouts completed during my retreat last month. Moving on to my Daily December Album which I'm already 3 days behind! Should have an update soon.

It's a Wrap

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving break with their family and loved ones.

Now that Black Friday is over the official countdown to Christmas is on!  With those newly purchased gifts, it's time to wrap them up.  I just Love when the packaging includes little touches of cuteness and here are two ideas to add to your wrapping this season.  

1) Add handmade fabric flowers topped with a little bling or buttons.  One of my flowers was adhered to a little hair clip from the November Main kit.  It was just clipped into the packaging so that it can easily be removed and reused.  Love the recycling aspect of that!

2) Roll a tshirt up like a Hogie Sandwich tied with a trio of Ribbons.

I had some scrapbooking tshirts with our theme "Bee Creative" imprinted for my scrappy friends so I decided to go with black/yellow/white/kraft combo.  Taking a sheet of tissue paper in two colors, I just rolled it up and folded the ends to a point.  Then created some quick and easy tags cut from my George cricut cartridge and stamped some polka dots and layered with diecut flowers.  And Wa-lah!!  You have a cute Hogie Sandwich wrapped tshirt.

All about the rides

Last month my workplace sponsered a night at All Star Sports with discount tickets so we took the kids and usually they are all about the arcade but surprisingly this time, they spent the majority of the time on the rides. Much better on our wallets. Paxton was still too short to ride on most of the kiddie rides but this bug one was right up his alley and he loved it!